Spring Grove, IL, USA
Was out with the dog and noticed an Orions belt star formation ..but not in the correct place in the sky.Trying to figure out what con
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-02-15
- Where
- Spring Grove, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.444, -88.236 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-spring-grove-il-2013-d04366
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Spring Grove, IL.
- This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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